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David Chalmers: The Conscious Mind (excerpt) A Thinking Allowed DVD w/ Jeffrey Mishlove
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Here he presents an overview of John Mack's remarkable career. Mack won the Pulitzer Prize for his biography of T. E. Lawrence (i.e., Lawrence of Arabia). He was chair of the psychiatry department at Harvard University. His interest in alien abductions generated international media attention – as well as an investigation/inquisition at Harvard. Prior to his 2004 accidental death in London, Mack was preparing a book on survival after death.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on April 6, 2021)
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Here he explains his use of the term "soul" as relating to an individual's unique ecological niche in mythopoetic terms. He points out that soul initiation is not the same as a vision quest, a hero's journey, psychotherapy, nor a rite of passage. It can be a very lengthy process involving a dissolution of the ego. He shares many details of the process, relating it to the biological transformation of a caterpillar to butterfly. He also describes Carl Gustav Jung's soul initiation as documented in the Red Book.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited, American university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on February 24, 2021)
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Here she explains that consciousness is infinite and that, ultimately, there is no real separation between our waking consciousness, our subconscious mind, and the afterlife. It is all one. However, that realization is difficult to maintain in the face of daily life's necessities. She describes several powerful examples of both archetypal, visionary experiences and after-death communications. They blend into each other. She closes with a riveting prophetic vision.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on April 17, 2021)
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In this wide-ranging conversation, he describes the history and work of the Scientific and Medical Network, emphasizing the need for scientists to see beyond the limits of a pure materialist metaphysics. He describes the work of the eighteenth century scientist/mystic, Emmanuel Swedenborg – with a particular focus on Swedenborg's vivid descriptions of the afterlife. He explains the ethical implications of research on near-death experiences.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on April 16, 2021)
For a complete, updated list with links to all of our videos, see newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm.
Patricia Garfield is author of Creative Dreaming, Pathway to Ecstasy, Your Child's Dreams, Women's Bodies - Women's Dreams and The Healing Power of Dreams. Here she discusses sleep temples of the ancient world in which dreams were incubated for their healing potentials. Using examples from her own life, she points out that dreams can serve to forewarn us of potential illness, can diagnose actual disease conditions, and can facilitate the healing process.
New Thinking Allowed host, Jeffrey Mishlove, PhD, is author of The Roots of Consciousness, Psi Development Systems, and The PK Man. Between 1986 and 2002 he hosted and co-produced the original Thinking Allowed public television series. He is the recipient of the only doctoral diploma in "parapsychology" ever awarded by an accredited university (University of California, Berkeley, 1980).
(Recorded on May 8, 2021)
Since 2015, Jeffrey has hosted the New Thinking Allowed channel on YouTube. You can visit it at www.newthinkingallowed.com. You can also see the complete, up-to-date listing of videos on that channel at newthinkingallowed.com/Listings.htm
Dianne Skafte is professor of psychology and mythological studies at the Pacifica Graduate Institute in Carpenteria, California. She is author of Listening to the Oracle: The Ancient Art of Finding Guidance in the Signs and Symbols All Around Us. She defines oracles as a source of life-changing wisdom and guidance. Drawing upon ancient cultures, she refers to the oracle of Delphi, the Chinese I Ching, the tarot cards, and the practices of Native Americans. She suggests that we are experiencing a reawaking of oracular consciousness. However, oracles are not for everyone. Those who are fearful of such methods are best advised to avoid them.
In Part II Diane Skafte describes a Greek practice of divination based on exhumed bones of departed loved ones. Extensive ritual preparation is involved, and the experience is considered one that both necessitates and facilitates spiritual deepening. She also notes the similarity between the Greek and Tibetan practices of facing the impermanence of life. In addition she notes that psychic consultants and channels serve as oracles in the modern age. Ultimately, listening to the oracle, or deciding to ignore an ostensible oracular voice, requires inner discernment and intuition.
John Tarrant is a teacher of Zen Buddhism and also a Jungian psychotherapist. He is on the faculty of the program for integrative medicine at the University of Arizona, Tucson. He is author of The Dark Inside the Light. Here is makes the distinction between spirit and soul – spirit referring to our connection with the infinite and soul pertaining to our physical passions. He suggests that a disciplined inner life integrates these two poles of experience. He illustrates the Zen philosophy of acceptance with a story from the life of the master Hakuin.
World renown philosopher and religious scholar Huston Smith, Ph.D., describes his journey from his childhood in China to the American mid-west and his discovery of Western scientific philosophy and his deep explorations of the Eastern mystical traditions as a student of Vedanta, the Hindu philosophical tradition. He describes the notion of the deity as conceived across various religious traditions.
Here Young elaborates on the difference between the planets Saturn, Uranus and Neptune, explaining how the planetary cycles of Saturn have had significance in his own life. He discusses the use of progressed charts in astrology from the perspective of systems theory in which whole cycles are embedded within each other. Astrology, he suggests, is a larger more comprehensive system than science. Scientists can benefit from studying it regardless of its application in individual horoscopes.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Thinking Allowed has recently completed the massive task of remastering and digitizing all 450 programs in our series, which aired on PBS stations across the U.S. from 1986 through 2002.
The new, hi-res programs will be made available in various ways yet to be determined. We begin this access process by making available all of the programs we made featuring Arthur M. Young, teacher and mentor to both Jeffrey Mishlove and to series co-producer/director Arthur Bloch.
Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung, inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung, inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung , inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
The series features Arthur M. Young @ArthurMYoung, inventor of the Bell helicopter, philosopher, cosmologist and author of The Reflexive Universe and The Geometry of Meaning.
Interviewed by Charles Fauvre. Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch.
Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch
Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch
Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch
Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch
Produced and directed by Arthur Bloch
Ram Dass probes deeply into the nature of helping relationships. He suggests that when we see deeply into each human being, no matter how desperate the situation, we are able to honor and learn from them. If we view ourselves as the "helper," we become trapped in the prison of our own self-image -- and this interferes with genuine compassion. Ram Dass' own path led him to look for God in every person and situation. Following this path, his life of service included working with refugees, with the blind, and with the dying. In this moving, two-part program, he examines the delicate state of awareness in which one acts compassionately for social change while also accepting the world exactly as it is.
Part One of this video is here: youtube.com/watch?v=_skjT_uOzyo&t=27s
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True psychology is incomplete without an understanding of the spiritual yearnings of human beings. The late Frances Vaughan, Ph.D., was a transpersonal psychotherapist and president of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. She was author of Awakening Intuition and The Inward Arc. Dr. Vaughan stresses that all spiritual traditions ultimately offer a means toward transcendence of the limited self.
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One of the most widely read writers in the field of philosophy and religion, Huston Smith's classic book The Religions of Man has sold over two million copies. In this stimulating program Dr. Smith discusses the relation between psychedelic experience and religious practice, the god within and the cultivation of psychic experiences within religious and shamanic traditions.
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Genuine healing occurs when we take ourselves mercifully into our own hearts and accept the totality of our lives. This healing of the soul or spirit, says Stephen Levine, is independent of bodily healing. We harden our hearts when we fail to forgive ourselves of our own pain. In this sense, one can only heal one's self; one can never truly be healed by another
Conscious living and conscious dying require that we bring our pain into our hearts, rather than wall ourselves off from it. In this moving and personal two-part program, The late Stephen Levine illustrates this point by referring to several cases of dying individuals with whom he has worked
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Archetypal energies beckon us to live a larger life. We are all healers, warriors, visionaries and teachers -- but often these potentials remain in latent form. Through song, dance, storytelling and meditation we can activate these archetypes.
The late Angeles Arrien, Ph.D., a cross-cultural anthropologist, was on the faculty of the California Institute of Integral Studies and the Institute of Transpersonal Psychology. She is author of The Tarot Handbook, The Fourfold Way and Signs of Life.
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Trances and visions have long been recognized in various religious traditions and have been the basis of much valued art, music and literature. A distinguished psychologist and former dean of faculty at the Institute for Transpersonal Psychology, the late Arthur Hastings, Ph.D., explores the phenomenon known variously as spirit communication, trance mediumship or "channelling."
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NOTE: This is the initial, broadcast portion of the 88-minute DVD interview.
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In this moving and profound program, Colin Wilson shares his personal struggle in dealing with states of panic and depression. His attempt to cope with these difficult experiences has led him to explore states of extreme lucidity and self-control.
Colin Wilson was one of the most prolific writers in the English language. His novels include The Mind Parasites, The Philosopher's Stone and Sex Diary of a Metaphysician. Other major works include A Criminal History of Mankind, The Occult, Mysteries, Religion and the Rebel, The New Existentialism, New Pathways in Psychology and The Outsider--his first and most famous book.
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NOTE: This is the full broadcast portion of the 88-minute DVD interview.
Existential psychology emphasizes philosophic rather than psychopathological aspects of the human condition. In this animated, two-part discussion, Dr. May proposes that genuine growth comes from confronting the pain of existence rather than escaping into banal pleasures or shallow, positive thinking. Genuine joy, he says, can emerge from an appreciation of life's agonies.
The late psychotherapist Rollo May was a recipient of the Distinguished Career Award of the American Psychological Association and a founding sponsor of the Association for Humanistic Psychology. He was author of numerous classic works including Love and Will, Psychology and the Human Dilemma, Freedom and Destiny, Dreams and Symbols, The Meaning of Anxiety and Man's Search for Himself.
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This is Part 1 of a four part, two-hour Thinking Allowed DVD. Are our thoughts shaped by the language we use?
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NOTE: This is an excerpt from the two-part, 60-minute DVD.
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Poetry allows us to acknowledge the fullness of our being in ways that are often denied in daily life. This denial has often proved both injurious to the soul and bad for business. Poetry unites us with the soul of the world.
David White is author of several books of poetry and a book of prose and poetry, The Heart Aroused. Whyte maintains that poetry provides a treasure of wisdom that gives guidance in times of crisis. The insights of poetry can facilitate an awakening of vision and a breakthrough from the paralysis caused by confusion, doubt and humdrum routine.
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NOTE: This is an excerpt from a 30-minute DVD.
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The psychiatric community errs in treating visionary experience as a form of mental illness, says Jungian psychotherapist John Weir Perry, M.D.. The late Dr. Perry was the author of many books including The Heart of History and The Far Side of Madness. He suggests that psychiatric labelling and the use of anti-psychotic drugs serve to stifle the valuable integration of life's mythic dimensions.


